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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red.
  • Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
  • adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective mycology violet colored.

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